Police Station, Mundingburra
Letterbook
4. 8.1890 - 18. 7.1898 QS 480/1 (1) Queensland State Archives
23. 5.1904 - 25. 4.1907 QS 480/1 (2) Queensland State Archives
25. 4.1907 - 1. 1.1911 QS 480/1 (3) Queensland State Archives
21. 8.1919 - 30. 8.1920 QS 480/1 (4) Queensland State Archives
16. 6.1922 - 23.11.1922 QS 480/1 (5) Queensland State Archives
3. 6.1924 - 3.12.1924 QS 480/1 (6) Queensland State Archives
29. 7.1895 Mentions Trackers Hughes and Tommy. mentions about 200
Blacks camped on the Clark in the vicinity of the Telegraph
Station about 5 weeks ago awaiting the distribution of blankets.
They had done this for 4 or 5 years. They came from all parts.
26. 8.1895 Mentions Trackers Hughie and Tommy
30. 3.1896 About report of a black boy who was camped in the Ross
River near Aitkenvale being stabbed. Mentions
Tower, at the camp, stabbed
George, did the stabbing
Billy Cockfield, owned the knife
Maggie, gin of Towers
Towers taken to Hospital. George and Billy Cockfield escaped
to the ranges.
16. 4.1897 Mentions Trooper Tommy
26. 4.1897 Mentions Trooper Tommy
30. 5.1897 Mentions Tracker Wills
16. 7.1904 Mentions the following brothers
James Lawson
Charles Lawson H/C, deceased
9. 8.1904 Douglas drunk and disorderly at Hermit Park
on 8. 8.1904
22. 8.1904 No employment available for the following about
Mundingburra
Jack
Billy Tommy
Major
Also several local boys about here unable to get employment
26.10.1904 Disappearance of Jacko from Mr Quinn's at Ross River.
Jacko said he would commit suicide. No trace found.
27.10.1904 Jacko seen in Flinders St near the Central Hotel.
Also mentions boy named Barber who may be Aboriginal.
24.11.1904 Jimmy inflicted grevious bodily harm on Charley
and Lena at the camp near Ross River. Lena is Charley's gin.
5.12.1904 Mrs Pritt's pony illegally used by Rutherford's
black boy at Stewarts Creek.
23.12.1904 Illegal supply of liquor to the following
Jack
Charley
Lena
Maggie
21. 1.1905 Patrick Joseph Huston attacked by Aborigines on the
road between Kerrama Stn and Cardwell.
30. 1.1905 Mentions Andy at Kerrama Stn.
4. 2.1905 Supply of liquor from the Hermit Park Hotel to
Aboriginals. Mentions
Trooper
Willie
Mundy
Tommy
5. 6.1905 Mentions Aborigines removed from Pullens Paddock.
Also mentions Charlie and his gin Jennie.
1. 9.1905 Sam and his gin Eva are camped at Ross River. They have
two children aged 2 years and one week. They are in need of rations.
18. 6.1906 Recognizance to be entered into by James Heenan (?Keenan)
for the return of Jenny.
9. 7.1906 Recognizance for Jenny to be returned to Atherton
has arrived.
1. 9.1906 Monkey sick at Rose Bay. Not been able to walk for
some years.
. 5.1907 Aboriginal boy Joe or Pengue now around Ayr.
26. 6.1907 Pacific Islander Sukar and his gin Annie wanted at
the Courthouse.
2.11.1907 Mr Vidler states he employed a black boy known as
Jack Palmer who is said to be about North Ward.
16.12.1907 Jimmy Wyrum arrived Townsville on 13.12.1907
17. 1.1908 List of persons whose Agreements with Aborigines have
expired
A Hannon (?Hannow) Will renew Agreement
Arthur Buck Will renew Agreement with Billy
Arthur Buck Will not renew Agreement with Ernest Anderson
H J B Halloran Will renew Agreement with Johnny and Ted
H J B Halloran Will not renew Agreement with Jack
M Rheubens States Ted has left him
J P Ransom States Albert has left him
J J Fanning Will renew Agreement with Tommy Dodd
S L Wakeford Will renew Agreement with Jack Jones
J Cummins Will renew Agreement with Toby
27. 1.1908 William Kirkwood, drover supposedly employing
Aborigines without a permit. The boys were
Charley
Willie
Guy
Two were Aborigines and one was a Aboriginal/Kanaka half-caste
28. 1.1908 William Kirkwood to be prosecuted for employing
Charley, Willie and Guy without a Permit. Kirkwood now at Ingham.
21. 4.1908 Supply of liquor to an Aborigine named Cloden at
a Chinaman's place on the Charters Towers Road.
12. 7.1908 Fight at the Black's Camp at Aitkenvale. Mentions
Mundy
Charlie
Maggie, gin of Charlie
29. 7.1908 Charlie sentenced to 14 days in Stewarts Creek Gaol
30. 7.1908 Expenses in trial of Charlie
4. 8.1908 Ted Wicker is employed at Woodlands, Hyde Park
11. 9.1908 Annie is about 24 years of age and has a H/C son.
Mr Rheubens Black Boy said Annie is staying with some woman
near the Courthouse.
1. 7.1909 Aboriginal boy with an ulcerated leg sick at Aitkenvale
3. 7.1909 Sick Aboriginal boy at Aitkenvale is Tommy
14. 7.1909 Tommy, who was sick at Aitkenvale, is better
27. 8.1909 Girl chased by Aboriginal boy at Louisa. No proof.
Boy was named Albert. Also mentions boy named Black.
25.12.1909 George now Stewart Creek Gaol for unlawfully entering
premises. From the Cooktown district
10. 3.1910 Chuckey charged with stealing horse and saddle.
14. 6.1910 Chuckey charged with theft of horse and saddle. He is
supposed to have a gin at Ingham. He is a native of Cooktown.
23.11.1919 Mentions Murray who owned two horses and sold one to
Mr Harry
2.12.1919 Aborigines and half-castes loitering around the
locality of Mundingburra. There are none. Those here are under
Agreement.
3. 5.1920 CPA enquiring for Freddie Murdock. Not in district.
5. 1.1922 Eric and Tommy found a steer that had been shot, in
Hayes Paddock.
20. 3.1922 Frank Martin employed by T A Gulliver at Hyde Park.
Wants to return to his home or Palm Island.
3. 5.1922 Jerry suspected of theft. Amongst others stole clothing
from Frank Martin.
18. 6.1922 Tommy Duncan and Powder served with liquor at the
Aitkenvale Arms Hotel, Aitkenvale.
21. 6.1922 Rosie and Powder are married. Neither want to keep it
that way. Powder wants to go to Palm Island and have the marriage
finished.
18. 8.1922 Willie Sullivan absconded from the fishing boat
Seymour. Also mentions
Mrs Bargo, kanaka
Bradford
Mick, usually employed at Lochinvar Stn
9.10.1922 The following deserters from the pearling ketches
Brian and Tranton are not in the district
Willie
Toby
3. 6.1924 Florrie H/C is general help to Mrs Mary Robertson
of Townsville. She does not get any pay but is given sufficient
clothing and money as she needs it.
19. 8.1924 Fred Watson alias Fred Johnson, a half-caste,
assaulted a prostitute named Gaby Louis of Hermit Park. Fred
had been in Gaol for 6 months for vagrancy.
15. 9.1924 Willie Riley left employment at Drynie via Brandon
without permission.
19.10.1924 Dan Kyle, discharged from Stewart Creek Gaol some
time past, was residing with kanakas at Cluden but has gone
either to Giru or Lochinvar Stn.
1.12.1924 Florrie H/C is employed by Mrs Mary Robertson of
Rifle Range, Cluden, Townsville. Florrie is about 16 years old.
Florrie's mother is at Yarrabah.
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